Veronica is a socially engaged visual artist who is based in East London and works predominantly with acrylics, stitch, ink and digitally to create art.
Veronica’s practice explores themes around ‘inner-child’ healing and how evoking the inner-child in adults can help to aid recovery. Recent bodies of work which she is creating explore the following subjects:
The way in which inner-child healing can aid trauma recovery in adults.
The relevance of nostalgia and melancholy in terms of transitional objects in childhood.
How sensory and interactive elements can be incorporated into artworks to evoke individual, lived experience.
Spontaneous escapism from adult preoccupations to childhood fantasy to evoke feelings of joy.
Veronica has over ten years’ experience of engaging communities and creating art on this theme.
In 2021 she received a £15,000 grant from Arts Council, England, to work with a clinical psychologist and abuse victims to create a series of artworks and quilted blankets which are currently housed at the Nightingale Psychiatric Hospital and are used for group therapy sessions. Please see further information on this project here.
Veronica’s work experience over the past eleven years as a workshop facilitator includes projects involving working with some of the most marginalised and deprived groups in society including; pupil referral units, care homes, schools and hospitals, please see here for workshops.
She was originally awarded a 1st Class Honours Degree in Surface Pattern Design from the University of Wales (2009) and later completed a Masters’ Degree in Illustration from Kingston University.
Back, during her degree Veronica created a series of 7ft digitally printed, vintage toy inspired illustrations onto fabric, aiming to embed lasting memories onto the viewer. She still feels that working onto a multitude of surfaces at the largest scale possible creates optimum impact.
For the past few years Veronica has worked on socially engaged installation and public space commissions and is very eager to work on projects which result in huge scale pieces artworks which adorn the front of buildings.